Bergen Orgelsommer - Bergen International Organ Festival - Kensuke Ohira

Kensuke Ohira is an international artist and was organist at the Stiftskirche Stuttgart until December 2020. Following his studies in Tokyo and Würzburg/Germany, his First Place in the ION - Musica Sacra 2016 competition in Nuremberg ("Johann-Pachelbel-Preis") was the starting point of an international career. He regularly receives invitations to organ events and festivals such as Internationale Dresdner Orgelwochen, Orgelsommer Freiburger Münster, as in Konzerthaus Berlin, St Pauls Cathedral (UK) and La Madeleine (FR).   

  

Kensuke Ohira received his first musical education at Tokyo University of Arts. Beginning in fall 2010 he went to Musikhochschule Würzburg on a scholarship awarded by DAAD and the Japanese Ministry of Culture, where he graduated the course of advanced studies in organ (Meisterklassendiplom) in 2013. He then attended the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München to study Sacred Music and Comtemporary Music.  Since 2021 Kensuke Ohira is principal organist at the Hijirigaoka Church in Tokyo and he has been the artistic director of Ensemble Muromachi since 2022, succeeding Laurent Teycheney.